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  1. NN2FPGA: Optimizing CNN Inference on FPGAs With Binary Integer Programming

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, May 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  2. Enhanced Machine-Learning Flow for Microwave-Sensing Systems for Contaminant Detection in Food

    Article • IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics, September 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  3. Mix & Latch: Comparison With State-of-the-Art Retiming on a RISC-V Benchmark

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, July 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  4. High-Level Design of Precision-Scalable DNN Accelerators Based on Sum-Together Multipliers

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  5. To Spike or Not to Spike: A Digital Hardware Perspective on Deep Learning Acceleration

    Article • IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, December 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  6. Accelerating Quantized DNN Layers on RISC-V with a STAR MAC Unit

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  7. A Reconfigurable Multiplier/Dot-Product Unit for Precision-Scalable Deep Learning Applications

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  8. Mix & Latch: An Optimization Flow for High-Performance Designs With Single-Clock Mixed-Polarity Latches and Flip-Flops

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  9. Brain Stroke Classification via Machine Learning Algorithms Trained with a Linearized Scattering Operator

    Article • Diagnostics, December 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  10. Physical Contamination Detection in Food Industry Using Microwave and Machine Learning

    Article • Electronics, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  11. Fast Energy-Optimal Multikernel DNN-Like Application Allocation on Multi-FPGA Platforms

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, April 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  12. Efficient Training and Hardware Co-design of Machine Learning Models

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  13. Machine-Learning-Based Microwave Sensing: A Case Study for the Food Industry

    Article • IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, September 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  14. Experimental Validation of a Microwave System for Brain Stroke 3-D Imaging

    Article • Diagnostics, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  15. CNN-on-AWS: Efficient Allocation of Multikernel Applications on Multi-FPGA Platforms

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, February 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  16. FPGA Acceleration of 3D FDTD for Multi- Antennas Microwave Imaging Using HLS

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  17. High-Level Annotation of Routing Congestion for Xilinx Vivado HLS Designs

    Article • IEEE Access, January 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  18. Power-Optimal Mapping of CNN Applications to Cloud-Based Multi-FPGA Platforms

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  19. Noninvasive Inline Food Inspection via Microwave Imaging Technology: An Application Example in the Food Industry

    Article • IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  20. A Prototype Microwave System for 3D Brain Stroke Imaging

    Article • Sensors, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  21. High Level Design of a Flexible PCA Hardware Accelerator Using a New Block-Streaming Method

    Article • Electronics, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  22. Exact and Heuristic Allocation of Multi-kernel Applications to Multi-FPGA Platforms

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  23. Design and Experimental Assessment of a 2D Microwave Imaging System for Brain Stroke Monitoring

    Article • International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, May 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Bernard Duchêne, francesca vipiana, Dr. Mario R. Casu

  24. Low-Cost Low-Power Acceleration of a Microwave Imaging Algorithm for Brain Stroke Monitoring

    Article • Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  25. Design-Space Exploration of Pareto-Optimal Architectures for Deep Learning with DVFS

    Article • May 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Valentino Peluso, Andrea Calimera, Dr. Mario R. Casu

  26. Lower-Order Compensation Chain Threshold-Reduction Technique for Multi-Stage Voltage Multipliers

    Article • Sensors, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  27. State-of-the-Art Power Management Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

    Article • IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  28. Power-performance assessment of different DVFS control policies in NoCs

    Article • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  29. A COTS-Based Microwave Imaging System for Breast-Cancer Detection

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  30. Accelerators for Breast Cancer Detection

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  31. Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection: A COTS-Based Prototype

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  32. A synchronous latency-insensitive RISC for better than worst-case design

    Article • Integration, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  33. Rate-Based vs Delay-Based Control for DVFS in NoC

    Article • January 2015, EDAA

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  34. Simulation and design of an UWB imaging system for breast cancer detection

    Article • Integration, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  35. UWB microwave imaging for breast cancer detection

    Article • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  36. Accelerator Memory Reuse in the Dark Silicon Era

    Article • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  37. Power‐gating technique for network‐on‐chip buffers

    Article • Electronics Letters, November 2013, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  38. Joint delay and power control in single-server queueing systems

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  39. LAURA-NoC: Local Automatic Rate Adjustment in Network-on-Chips With a Simple DVFS

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs, October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  40. UWB receiver for breast cancer detection: Comparison between two different approaches

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  41. Hardware Acceleration of Beamforming in a UWB Imaging Unit for Breast Cancer Detection

    Article • VLSI Design, June 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  42. Breast cancer detection based on an UWB imaging system: Receiver design and simulations

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  43. Exploiting space diversity and Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling in multiplane Network-on-Chips

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  44. DVFS Based on Voltage Dithering and Clock Scheduling for GALS Systems

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  45. Half-buffer retiming and token cages for synchronous elastic circuits

    Article • IET Computers & Digital Techniques, July 2011, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  46. A NoC-based hybrid message-passing/shared-memory approach to CMP design

    Article • Microprocessors and Microsystems, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  47. A flexible UWB Transmitter for breast cancer detection imaging systems

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  48. MEDEA: a hybrid shared-memory/message-passing multiprocessor NoC-based architecture

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  49. Improving Synchronous Elastic Circuits: Token Cages and Half-Buffer Retiming

    Article • January 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  50. Adaptive Latency Insensitive Protocols and Elastic Circuits with Early Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis

    Article • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  51. A Fully Differential Digital CMOS UWB Pulse Generator

    Article • Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  52. A Case Study for NoC-Based Homogeneous MPSoC Architectures

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  53. A mixed-signal demodulator for a low-complexity IR-UWB receiver: Methodology, simulation and design

    Article • Integration, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  54. A VHDL-AMS Simulation Environment for an UWB Impulse Radio Transceiver

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  55. The NoCRay Graphic Accelerator: a Case-study for MP-SoC Network-on-Chip Design Methodology

    Article • November 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  56. Adaptive Latency-Insensitive Protocols

    Article • IEEE Design and Test of Computers, September 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  57. A Low-power CMOS 2-PPM Demodulator for Energy Detection IR-UWB Receivers

    Article • September 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  58. An effective AMS Top-Down Methodology Applied to the Design of a Mixed-Signal UWB System-on-Chip

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  59. Floorplanning With Wire Pipelining in Adaptive Communication Channels

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, December 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  60. Throughput-driven floorplanning with wire pipelining

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, May 2005, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  61. Implementation aspects of a transmitted-reference UWB receiver

    Article • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, January 2005, Wiley

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  62. Effects of temperature in deep-submicron global interconnect optimization in future technology nodes

    Article • Microelectronics Journal, October 2004, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  63. An electromigration and thermal model of power wires for a priori high-level reliability prediction

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, April 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  64. Floorplanning for throughput

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  65. A new approach to latency insensitive design

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  66. Coupled electro-thermal modeling and optimization of clock networks

    Article • Microelectronics Journal, December 2003, Elsevier

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  67. A Block-Based Approach for SoC Global Interconnect Electrical Parameters Characterization

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  68. Effects of Temperature in Deep-Submicron Global Interconnect Optimization

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  69. Reduced clock swing domino logic

    Article • Electronics Letters, January 2002, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  70. History effect characterization in PD-SOI CMOS gates

    Article • January 2002, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  71. Clock Distribution Network Optimization under Self-Heating and Timing Constraints

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  72. Synthesis of low-leakage PD-SOI circuits with body-biasing

    Article • January 2001, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  73. A New System Design Methodology for Wire Pipelined SoC

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  74. A multiprocessor based packet-switch: performance analysis of the communication infrastructure

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  75. Energy detection UWB receiver design using a multi-resolution VHDL-AMS description

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  76. Converting an embedded low-power SRAM from bulk to PD-SOI

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu

  77. A high accuracy-low complexity model for CMOS delays

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Mario R. Casu